Dylan TweneyEditor-in-Chief

Dylan Tweney is the editor-in-chief of VentureBeat, overseeing a news team of about a dozen journalists. Since he joined the site in 2011, the site’s audience has more than tripled, to 6.5 million monthly visitors. He also writes the weekly “Dylan’s Desk” column, a weekly series on Silicon Valley, the tech industry, and the impacts of technology on business strategy.

Previously, he was a senior editor at Wired, leading the publication’s gadget and business blogs. Prior to Wired, he worked at three different content startups and wrote widely-read columns for national magazines Business 2.0 and InfoWorld.

He is also the publisher of tinywords, the world’s smallest daily magazine.

Disclosures: I stand behind everything in VentureBeat’s ethics statement. I hold no individual stocks, and my few investments are in index funds that I mostly ignore (it’s too painful otherwise). Over the years, I’ve been the recipient of many T-shirts, coffee mugs, squishy balls, and ballpoint pens from companies whose names I’ve now forgotten.

Google employees contributed about $1.6 million to Barack Obama’s two Presidential election campaigns. And Google employees have been to White House meetings about 230 times, one per week, since. Coincidence?

Gigaom’s Structure Data event, planned for this week, was canceled when Gigaom shut down. But some of those who were planning to attend weren’t about to take no for an answer, and have organized their own, independent event.

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FounderDating, which is a sort of “LinkedIn for entrepreneurs” (not a dating site for well-heeled founders), is adding a new question-and-answer site for its members that it’s calling FounderDating Discuss.

Real identities help keep people accountable for what they say online. But forcing them to prove their identity, rather than letting them choose their own identities, alienates entire communities. There must be a balance.

Curated shopping site Fancy (formerly “The Fancy”) announced earlier today that it had raised a Series D round of funding led by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Domit, Japanese company Culture Convenience Club (CCC), and investor and America Movil executive Arturo Elias.

This week we talk to Charlie O’Donnell, founder of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the first VC fund based in Brooklyn. He tells us what makes NYC tick — and why it’s seeing an explosion of tech startups lately.

Draper University, a kind of accelerated bootcamp in entrepreneurship founded by legendary venture capitalist Tim Draper, has hired a new chief executive and is expanding its scope with the addition of a satellite of related ventures.